Re: [gentoo-dev] Rust is here to eat your Pythonz

[Michał Górny]

On Wed, 2022-07-27 at 12:52 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 26-07-2022 08:42:57 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hi, everyone.
> >
> > Just a quick FYI: since Rust is going to be marked stable on the last
> > architecture (sparc) that it's going to support in Gentoo, we're going
> > to start cleaning up old dev-python/cryptography soon.  If you don't
> > want Rust, removing cryptography entirely will be your only option.
>
> I believe this isn't always a "don't want", there's systems on which it
> simply is impossible to get Rust (ppc64-linux-musl for example).  How
> much does "removing cryptography" impact an Gentoo system wrt
> availability of packages?  I see pip in the list, so I expect the Python
> env will be seriously crippled?  An estimation of the impact would be
> appreciated here.
>

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Best regards,
Michał Górny